Database and Journal Cancellations
Every year, Auraria Library reviews resource subscriptions and negotiates with publishers and vendors to provide access to resources that help with learning, teaching, and research on Auraria campus. Over 80% of the Library’s Learning Materials budget is allocated to ongoing journal packages and databases (subscriptions) that have 5-6% average increases from vendors each year. Strategies including price negotiations, memorandums of understanding (MOUs), small cancellations, and grants have been used to mitigate these annual increases; however, with our library materials budget remaining mostly unchanged for a decade, Auraria Library needs to occasionally cancel subscriptions. Cancellations during normal years cover publisher price increases not a major budget cut.
As with others on Auraria campus, Auraria Library was affected by budget cuts announced by University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) in fiscal year (FY) 2023.The library was informed that we would have a 4% reduction in our budget for FY 2024 and an additional 2.6% reduction in FY 2025. One-third of the library's budget is used for purchasing or subscribing to learning materials (LM) such as databases, journals, books, ebooks, streaming media, newspapers, data and statistical sources, DVDs, anatomical models, and more. Therefore, reductions to the LM budget would need to be made. The Library determined that in FY 2024 and FY 2025, $508,791 would need to be cut from the learning materials budget.
Library faculty and staff spent months gathering data about our resources to determine which resources might be cut. Data reviewed includes:
- Relevancy to campus needs / accreditation requirements
- Relevancy to library’s mission to support diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA)
- Prioritization of full-text resources over indexes
- Subject
- Cost
- Price history
- Usage
- Cost-per-use (CPU)
- Duplication of content
- Vendor ethics
The number of resources cancelled will depend on the individual cost of each resource and feedback we receive. We may still have access to a resource months after the end of the fiscal year due to the subscription period; however, once the resource comes up for renewal, it will be cancelled. Additionally, much of the cancelled content will still be available via Interlibrary Loan.
Questions? Please email CDL@auraria.edu.
Resource Name | Reason for Potential Cancellation | Resource Description |
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ACS Guide To Scholarly Communication | Vendor concerns, High increase in cost, Want feedback | Scholarly communication reference for chemistry research. |
Alt HealthWatch | High cost-per-use, Lower priority | Complementary, alternative, and integrated approaches to health and wellness. |
America History and Life with Full-Text | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | History and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. |
AMS Review | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Full-text single journal about all marketing sub-disciplines. |
Applied Physics Letters | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Full-text single journal publishing reports in applied physics. |
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) | Index, High cost-per-use | Abstracts (not full-text) of resources on modern and contemporary art. |
ARTFL | Want feedback | 3500 texts ranging from 12th to the 20th century French texts. |
Audio Engineering Society (AES) E-Library | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Full-text audio related research, publications, and events. |
Benezit Dictionary of Artists | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Full-text artists' biographies with regular updates on contemporary artists. |
CCH AnswerConnect (formerly CCH Tax Research Network) | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Federal and state tax information |
Chaos | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Full-text single journal related to chaos theory across disciplines like physics, mathematics, engineering. |
Contemporary Authors | High cost-per-use, Vendor concerns | Annotated bibliography of current writers in all fields. |
Contemporary Literary Criticism | High cost-per-use, Vendor concerns, Want feedback | Full-text critical literary commentary |
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics | High cost-per-use, Lower priority | Property data of chemical compounds and physical particles. |
DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index | Index | Index (not full-text) of new designers, design development, and the applied arts. |
Dictionary Of Literary Biography | High cost-per-use, Vendor concerns | Full-text critical and biographical essays on British and American authors from all eras and genres. |
Dictionary Of Old English | High cost-per-use | Defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries of the English language, 600 - 1150 A.D. |
DRAM: Database of Recorded American Music | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Recorded sounds related to American musical heritage in the 20th and 21st centuries. |
eHRAF Archaeology | High cost-per-use | Full-text documents of archaeological traditions worldwide. |
Emerald Insight | High cost-per-use | Full-text journals related to business, marketing, management, HR, and information management. |
EMIS (Emerging Market Information Service) | Want feedback | News, industry information, company profiles, reports, and financial data. |
Film & Television Literature Index | Index | Index (not full-text) of film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, and cinematography. |
Films On Demand | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Educational films and video clips covering a range of subjects. |
GeoRef | Index, High cost-per-use | Index (not full-text) of global geoscience literature. |
GeoScienceWorld | High cost-per-use | Full-text to over 40 journals in the geoscience field. |
Historical Abstracts with Full-Text | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Full-text articles, book reviews, and dissertations covering world history from 1450 - present. Excludes the U.S. and Canada. |
International Journal of Bullying Prevention | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Full-text single journal focusing on bullying and related toipcs. |
International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Full-text single journal focusing on post-secondary mathematics education research. |
Investing Center (formerly Morningstar Investment Research Center | Want feedback | Data and analysis on investments, including stocks, mutual funds, and other funds. |
IOP Science | Want feedback | Full-text journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and research in the physical sciences and mathematics. |
Journal of Applied Physics | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Full-text single journal for experimental and theoretical findings in applied physics research. |
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | High cost-per-use | Full-text single journal related to acoustics, including physics-based analyses, physiological studies, and psychophysics. |
Knovel | Vendor concerns, Want feedback | Ebook in science and engineering. |
L'Annee Philologique | Index, High increase in cost | Index (not full-text) of scholarly documents in Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. |
Left Index | Index, Want feedback | Index (not full-text) of political, economic, social and cultural literature of the left. |
Library Literature & Information Science Full-Text | Want feedback | Full-text from over 170 journals. |
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts | Want feedback | Index (not full-text) of scholarship in linguistics and related disciplines. |
MathSciNet | High cost-per-use | Full-text of mathematical sciences literature. |
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print | High cost-per-use, Want feedback, Lower priority | Index (not full-text) of psychological, educational, and related fields' assessment instruments. |
Music ID | Want feedback | Analytics for music business resoruces. |
Music Index | Index, Want feedback | Index (not full-text) of international musical research literature. |
Music Online: Listening | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Streaming access to classical music, jazz, world music, American song, musical theater, opera, etc. |
New Day Films | High cost-per-use, Did not plan on renewing | Films related to many social science topics. |
Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism | High cost-per-use, Vendor concerns | Full-text literary criticism of nineteenth-century writers' works from all genres, nations, and cultures. |
Oxford Music Online | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Full-text research related to music history, theory, and instruments. |
PAIS Index | Index, High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Index (not full-text) of public policy and social policy articles and reports. |
Passport | Want feedback | Economic trends, strategic analysis, market size, and market share for products. |
Portland Press | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | 7 journals in biochemistry: Biochemical Journal, Clinical Science, Bioscience Reports, Nueuronal Signaling, Biochemical Society Transactions, Essays in Biochemistry, Emerging Topics in Life Sciences |
Project Euclid | High cost-per-use, Lower priority | Full-text resources about mathematics and statistics research. |
ResearchNow | High cost-per-use | Full-text to social science and humanities journals. |
Review of Scientific Instruments | High cost-per-use | Full-text single journal focusing on standards, measures, and instruments for science. |
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature | Index, High cost-per-use | Index (not full-text) of global music research across all disciplines, time periods, and languages. |
Rockefeller U Press | Full text in PubMed Central after 6 months embargo | 3 full-text journals: Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Experimental Medicine, and Journal of General Physiology |
Rock's Backpages: The Archives of Music Journalism | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Archive of music journalism, containing over 50 years of writing on rock, pop, and related genres. |
Shakespearean Literature Criticism | High cost-per-use, Vendor concerns | Full-text literary criticism on the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Published annually. |
Sociological Abstracts | Index, High cost-per-use | Abstracts (not full-text) of documents in sociology, social and policy science. |
SPORTDiscus | Index, High cost-per-use | Index for sports and sports medicine research. |
Statista | Want feedback | Market and consumer data, statistics, reports, and insights. |
Synthesis Digital Library | High cost-per-use, High increase in cost | Full-text of research in in engineering and computer science. |
Synthesis-Synlett | Lower priority | 2 full-text journals (Synthesis and Synlett) in synthetic and organic chemistry. |
The New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | Overlap of content | Historical access. Content from the first issue to four years before the current year. Current content available via website and Gale. |
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism | High cost-per-use, Vendor concerns | 453 volumes on literary criticism. |
U.S. Businesses Database (formerly Reference USA) | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Directory of 12 million businesses and 120 million households. |
ULRICHSweb Global Serials Directory | Want feedback | Information about active and defunct journals. |
Urban Design International | High cost-per-use, Want feedback | Full-text single journal on urban design. |
WestLaw | Vendor concerns, High cost, Want feedback | Full-text law-related resources. |
Women Writers Online | High cost-per-use, High increase in cost, Want feedback | Texts by English and American women published between 1500 and 1830. |
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts | Index, High increase in cost | Abstracts (not full-text) of political science and international relations literature. |
Cancelled Databases by Fiscal Year
Cancelled in Fiscal Year 2024
- Advances in Inorganic Chemistry
- Anthropology Plus
- Compendex
- Development (single journal)
- eLS: Encyclopedia Of Life Sciences
- Engineering Village
- Gale ebooks
- Geneva Risk and Insurance Review (single journal)
- Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance (single journal)
- Lexis Standing Orders (legal print resources)
- Naxos Music Library
- Naxos Music Library Jazz
- Swank SILLVR Program
- The Teaching Professor
- Veterinary Clinic of North America: Small Animal Practice (single journal)
- Wiley Evidence Based Acquisitions (EBA) program
Cancelled in Fiscal Year 2023
- Detail inspiration
- JSTOR Current Scholarship Program
- Labor arbitration awards
- Labor Relations
- Material ConneXion
- Occam's Reader
- Sage Video Evidence Based Acquisitions program (EBA)
- VitalLaw
- The Wall Street journal (website)
- World Shakespeare bibliography
Cancelled in Fiscal Year 2022
- Denver business journal
- Market and Media Intelligence
- Nexis Uni
Cancelled in Fiscal Year 2021
- Cambridge University Press online journals
- Checkpoint
- Columbia Granger's world of poetry
- Mary Ann Liebert Custom Package
- Oxford scholarship online
- Short story criticism
- Short story index
- Simmons OneView
- Something about the author online
- Value line investment survey